Missing Intestines: LASUTH Denies Allegation of Organs Harvesting
The management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital has raised its voice against a viral video of a 12-year-old boy whose intestines were allegedly removed by the hospital.
In a statement by the management, the hospital denied removing the patient’s intestines as alleged by his mother who posted a video in protest against the treatment of her child.
The statement reads in part, The hospital management needs to clarify issues on the insinuations being made by a mother in a viral video that the alleged loss of her son’s intestines after surgery is a matter between a private hospital and LASUTH.
Our hospital is an excellent tertiary institution with highly knowledgeable and skilled medical consultants. We are also equipped with state of the art facilities. The patient in question was referred to our hospital after having two surgeries carried out in a private hospital. He required extensive optimisation in our facility before a corrective surgery could be carried out.”
It stated that at the surgery, which was carried out by an experienced pediatric surgeon and her team , certain strange findings were discovered.
“There is a video clip of these intraoperative findings. The mother was informed about these findings but she appeared to be in denial.
The hospital is in possession of a comprehensive report of the findings by a high powered panel that it quickly set up to look into all ramifications of this case. Clearly, our hospital carried out a corrective surgery and did not wilfully remove any organ or structure.
We empathize with the family of the patient. We believe that financial assistance from any quarters will be in order but we do not think that a blackmail of the state government via the social media is the best approach,” it stated.
The hospital management is cooperating with the state agency which is already investigating this rather unfortunate case.
